The Grand Budapest Hotel Production Design

It fell to production designer adam stockhausen moonrise kingdom to create the elaborate mirages of the grand budapest hotel which he likens to those of a science fiction film.

The grand budapest hotel production design. Adam stockhausen takes us through how he worked with wes anderson to create the production design for grand budapest hotel. The character of m. The grand budapest hotel emphasises how production design is used to magnify a character s personality with the hotel matching ralph fiennes character. Wes anderson s bubblegum pink grand budapest hotel isn t a real locale but a combination of the innards of the görlitzer warenhaus department store an exquisite 14 by 7 miniature model and.

The outfits of the hotel staff are a deep rich purple highlighted with red. The new york times just posted a slideshow of pictures detailing the conception design and construction of the hotel seen in wes anderson s the grand budapest hotel which begins hitting. The grand budapest hotel production design also known as art directing in film is the process of bringing and portraying a visual element from the set into the camera. In the video we discuss designs.

Ralph fiennes leads a seventeen actor ensemble cast as monsieur gustave h famed concierge of a mountainside resort in the fictional country of zubrowka. It took an awful lot of versions to win over the discerning director but adam stockhausen must have made a good impression since then he has served as production designer on anderson s last two films moonrise kingdom and the grand budapest hotel. These colors speak not only to the affluence of the hotel and its patrons dig that royal purple but also to a general sense of warmth and vibrancy. The grand budapest hotel is at the height of its glory.

The hotel itself is full of pinks and whites. Gustave is known to be very exact particular and flamboyant hence the hotel s order immaculacy and vibrancy.